Gottlob Walz

Gottlob Walz ( born June 29, 1881 † 1943 in Stuttgart ) was a German diver who won the Diving at the 1906 Summer Olympics.

Career

Gottlob started rolling for the float collar Schwaben Stuttgart. From 1900 to 1903 he won the German championship four times in springboard diving, 1899, he won the combination .. From 1901 to 1903, rolling three times European champion.

After the water jump had been the first time at the Olympic Games 1904 in St. Louis on the program, it was also program component of the Summer Olympics Games in Athens. With the German runners-up in St. Louis Georg Hoffmann even a starter of 1904 was again there. On a Greek warship springboards in the heights of four meters, eight meters and twelve meters were installed, had to be completed by those three jumps. Gottlob roll won the competition before Hoffmann, like two years ago took the second place and the Austrian Otto Satzinger.

Two years later at the Olympic Games in London in 1908 for the first time there were two competitions in the water jumping on the Olympic program. The diving dominated the Swedish Springer, in the art of jumping the Germans were superior. The winner was Albert Zürner before Kurt Behrens and Gottlob Walz, who tied for third place with the American George Gaidzik.

Published in 1912 in Stuttgart rolling his book The Art of the water jumping in words and pictures. After the First World War, he led a paper mill in Switzerland. 1988 roll was taken as a pioneer of the water jumping into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale.